2013-10-17T18:31:17-07:00 2013-07-31 Byeman & Cleary CPAs 412 W Broadway Suite 206 Glendale CA 912041297 990 2012-08-01 954431730 LOS ANGELES CHILDRENS CHORUS LOSA 6267934231 585 E COLORADO BLVD PASADENA CA 91101 GREGORY PIESCHALA 2013-10-17 true DANIEL R MOORE P00293381 8182473223 X 2012 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z JULIE LARSON 585 E COLORADO BLVD PASADENA CA 91101 1504110 false false X WWW.LACHILDRENSCHORUS.ORG X 1986 CA Los Angeles Children's Chorus provides choral music education of the highest quality to young people who represent richly diverse racial, economic, and cultural backgrounds. 17 17 27 261 0 389610 469613 930739 869735 31 14 54321 76325 1374701 1415687 0 0 713817 684870 0 130774 691263 625546 1405080 1310416 -30379 105271 264496 402890 68843 101966 195653 300924 Los Angeles Children's Chorus provides choral music education of the highest quality to young people who represent richly diverse racial, economic, and cultural backgrounds. The program ignites a love of singing and nurtures the full expression of each individual's potential for artistic and personal excellence through the collaborative experience of choral music performance. false false 1033623 869735 Under Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson, Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC) is recognized throughout the country for its exceptional artistic quality and technical ability. Founded in 1986, LACC performs frequently with leading music ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Calder Quartet, and Pasadena Symphony and POPS. LACC also assists LA Opera by training and providing children for its opera productions that require children's chorus or child soloists.LACC offers a comprehensive, after-school choral music training program involving rehearsals, musicianship classes, vocal coaching, and performances. Through a program that conforms to California's standards for the performing arts, LACC keeps children aged 6-18 engaged in a transformative program during their critical developmental years, guiding their development into highly capable musicians while also teaching critical life skills like self-discipline, focus, the ability to collaborate and communicate with others, the pursuit of personal excellence, and perseverance to achieve their goals. LACC serves more than 375 young people each year from 50+ communities throughout greater Los Angeles and reflects in its membership the cultural and economic diversity of the region. LACC's program is tuition-based, but need-based financial assistance is available.LACC has toured Africa, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Scandinavia, and many parts of the United States. In 2008, Concert Choir performed at the China International Arts Celebration for Young People during its tour to China prior to the Beijing summer Olympics. In 2011, Concert Choir toured the east coast and performed in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Washington, DC, where it performed a July 4th concert on the Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser stated: "Every once in a while I have an arts experience that catches me by surprise and reminds me about the power and beauty of the arts. Watching [the LACC] chorus of young voices was riveting. Not just because of the youngsters' technical proficiency, which was substantial, but for the seriousness with which they took their work. It was astonishing. These children are simply the best."Highlights of the Chorus 2012-13 self-produced performance season, entitled Confluence, include LACCs hallmark Winter and Spring Concerts; free Community Connections Concerts at accessible local venues that featured elite guest ensembles from around the nation; engagements with the Autry Museum, the Austrian-American Council West, the Anti-Defamation League, and Chivas USA; choral exchanges with the Harvard Radcliffe Choral Society, Yale Whiffenpoofs, Verdugo Young Musicians Association, Houghton College Choir, and Northwest Girlchoir; workshops and master classes with noted guest clinicians, Grammy Award winning American choral conductor Dr. Jerry O. Blackstone and American Boychoir Music Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz; and LACCs season-culminating tours, which embarked the Young Mens Ensemble on its first international tour to Italy, Austria and Germany, the Concert Choir to the Canadian Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and the Chamber Singers to Cambridge, MA, to participate in the Harvard Womens Choral Festival. LACC also commissioned a new work from gifted choral composer Shawn Kirchner, the Los Angeles Master Chorales Composer in Residence. Mr. Kirchner will compose the new piece for the Young Mens Ensemble, thus expanding the world choral repertoire for young mens voices. The new work will be one of two world premiere commissions on LACCs 2013-14 performance calendar.Highlights of LACCs collaborative programming include performances of Tosca with LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion under esteemed maestro Plcido Domingo; guest appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall; joining the Los Angeles Master Chorale on its season opening Organ Extravaganza concert at Disney Hall under conductor Grant Gershon; holiday concerts with Jacaranda and the Pasadena Symphony; a dynamic summer concert with MUSE\IQUE, Rachael Worby conducting, and featuring Ricky Lee Jones; and the West Coast premiere of Sir Paul McCartneys Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My heart) with the Angeles Chorale under Dr. John Sutton.LACC produced a commissioned world-premiere opera, Keepers of the Night (2007), by composer Peter Ash and librettist Donald Sturrock; appears on Amore Infinito ("Infinite Love"), a Deutsche Grammophon release of songs based on poems by the late Pope John Paul II and performed by Plcido Domingo (released worldwide in March 2009); and A Good Understanding, the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 2010 recording of Nico Muhly on Decca. LACC is featured in the 2002 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Sing!, and sequel documentaries, Sing Opera! (2008) and Sing China! (2009), by award-winning filmmakers Freida Lee Mock and Jessica Sanders. Sing! chronicles a year in the life of the Chorus and is shown periodically on PBS stations nationwide. LACC has performed with John Mayer on NBC's "The Tonight Show," was featured on Public Radio International's nationally syndicated show "From the Top," and appears on feature film soundtracks. 1033623 true true false false false false false false false true true false false false true false true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 7 0 true 27 true false false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 17 17 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X BECKY SMITH 6267934231 585 E COLORADO BLVD PASADENA CA 91101 VIRGINIA N BROOKS 1.00 0.00 0 0 0 JENNIFER C TERRY 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JENNIFER SLISKOVICH 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ANDREA WILLARD 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MICHAEL B JORGENSEN 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ANN SUNSHINE 6.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JOANNE CRAWFORD-DUNER 8.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 VENA BENNETT LUTHEY 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MOLLY CONNELLY 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 GREGORY PIESCHALA 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ELISSA JOHNSTON 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JANET H KWOUN 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVID SCHEIDEMANTLE 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 RASHMI BANSAL 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DIANNE MAGEE 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MARY BLODGETT 4.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ED NOWAK 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 DEBORAH BERMAN 40.00 0.00 X 54627 0 8872 ANNE TOMLINSON 40.00 0.00 X 96600 0 10440 REBECCA SMITH 40.00 0.00 X 51692 0 0 ROY MUELLER 40.00 0.00 X 24150 0 5576 JULIE LARSON 40.00 0.00 X 73806 0 6477 300875 31365 0 false false false 0 188615 9500 271498 469613 TUITION/ADMISSION FEES 711130 869735 869735 869735 14 14 0 0 0 0 153062 188615 77682 75380 75380 0 11686 10741 945 945 0 1415687 870680 75394 0 0 0 0 316592 173388 63023 80181 0 303157 278221 23622 1314 0 16411 11358 3367 1686 48710 35704 6868 6138 0 0 7160 7160 0 0 0 0 0 8689 6369 1225 1095 0 0 62289 45658 8783 7848 0 0 0 850 623 120 107 0 12787 9373 1803 1611 12228 8963 1724 1541 BANK & MERCHANT FEES 21709 21709 DEVELOPMENT 23343 23343 MARKETING 41686 41686 CHOIR TOUR COSTS 342197 342197 92608 80083 6615 5910 1310416 1033623 146019 130774 95051 222767 57393 67348 60490 75110 8588 1962 0 0 0 0 8627 7576 204198 176071 34346 28127 0 0 0 0 1 0 264496 402890 35181 40132 19108 52605 14554 9229 68843 101966 X 139507 221672 29619 52725 26527 26527 195653 300924 264496 402890 105271 X false true X true false X 313609 332559 291447 389610 469613 1796838 0 0 313609 332559 291447 389610 469613 1796838 552596 1244242 2262 146 106 31 14 2559 0 0 1799397 0.69150 0.67890 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 26527 false false false 204198 176071 28127 28127 CAPITAL LEASE 9229 9229 1415687 1415687 1415687 1310416 1310416 1310416 false ANNUAL BANQUET EVENT 283757 185406 98351 55009 POINSETIA SALE 57920 3209 54711 22673 341677 188615 153062 55009 22673 77682 75380 Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available MAKE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. 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